AMASYA MERKEZ BÜYÜK KIZILCA KÖYÜ İSTASYON CAMİ
“BÜYÜK KIZILCA” VILLAGE MOSQUE IN AMASYA CENTER

Summary/Abstract: Büyük Kızılca Village, which is on the Tokat-Amasya highway, is 22 km away from the city center. It is a village connected to the central district of Amasya. The construction of the İstasyon Mosque which is the subject of our research, started in 1956 and was completed in 1958. The building registered in 2011, is intact and open to worship. The master of the building is Mehmed Çavdar from Zile. It is known that the village people also contributed to the construction of the mosque and a mobile workshop was established near the construction site. The mosque has undergone various repairs over time while the original minaret was preserved, and a new minaret was added to its north in 1995. The portico of mosque, which was a closed space in the north, was added to the building later. The building which sits on a rectangular plan in the north-south direction is covered with a fringed hipped roof from the facades. The building is noteworthy with its wooden overlapping ceiling covering the bland. The enceinte is covered with a rectangular three-stories wooden overlapping ceiling with the beam at the bottom, with a rectangular floor near the square in the middle. Geometric and botanical decorations are used on the ceiling. The ceiling colored with root points prepared in the traveling workshop is important. In our study, the structure was handled with wooden overlay ceiling constructions and decorations. The mosque which was built using traditional building elements in the Republican era is important in terms of transferring the knowledge and experiences it has brought from its past to the 20th century and this mosque’s master also holds a significant place since he is one of the last masters who follow this tradition. Evaluations were made by taking into consideration the traditional practices in the building.

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